Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?
Guiding Questions
What was happening with music in the 1960s? Who was the primary audience for this music? (consider a brief overview of both rock and folk music--Dylan spans both).
What role did music play in the protest movements of the time? the Civil Rights Movement? the counter culture movement? the anti-war movement?
How did Dylan's music reflect events at the time?
Cuban Missile Crisis: "A Hard Rain is A-Gonna Fall"
James Meredith: "Oxford Town'
"How many roads must a man go down"
John Kennedy's assassination: "'The Times They are A-Changin"
"Like a Rolling Stone"
"You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?
Guiding Questions
Resources